The problem is that PSI joins ActiveX .ocx and NPAPI .dll as one program.
It had left 14.x version and a lingering 13.x NPAPI zombie .dll, and it is offering "Approve Update" for the lingering 13.x NPAPI version. When clicked, it downloads files, goes "Running update" and then hangs in "Waiting for update to complete ...".

Here is the directory content:

(unknown source)

C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash>dir
Volume in drive C is System
Volume Serial Number is AC74-28A0

I have twice tried to create a new thread about it but I also posted a link in it to this thread because I agree that Secunia should resolve the "waiting for ever" adobe updates problem. (Perhaps they could remove it from their list of Auto-updates programs.)

I have lost both new threads because there is no Enter button at the button (if ever there was one).There is only a Create button but pressing that means you get a new blank form!

I've asked Secunia Support about it.

Sorry to piggyback your thread mtodorov but I am agreeing with your main push.

I have seen several times in a row recently that trying to get Secunia to update the Flash and/or the Flash plugin version hangs.

In the forum I have read the "well you must be running something else that is using Flash and that won't let Flash be updated, stop that." So I've tried terminating everything I can imagine that might be using Flash, tried running in administrator mode, tried rebooting in safe mode with networking and all behave the same way. I have even left Secunia waiting to finish updating Flash, opened a browser (which is almost certainly using Flash and thus would never let the update finish), gone to Adobe and completed the update to Flash in fifteen seconds while Secunia is still waiting.

Would there be any way a list of links might be provided, perhaps even for only the "problematic" programs, which would allow a user to click on them and do the update outside of Secunia?

For the non-plugin Flash it is easy to give up on Secunia and go to Adobe to install the new version. But for version 14 I've repeatedly tried and not been able to track down the Adobe link for the plugin version of Flash. Control Panel still tells me the version 13 of the plugin is live and well.

On a more philosophical level, how can some vice president of Adobe not realize in fifteen years that the weekly massive security holes found in Adobe Flash/Shockwave/Reader are an embarrassment to the company and tell some team that they have 30 days to make this problem go away forever or they will have to find somewhere else to work?!?!?

The interesting point there is that Maurice wrote that "Windows Vista using IE8 or 9 & Windows 7 using IE9 or 10 or 11 must use the traditional method." Secunia doesn't track Flash in those cases*** - perhaps this is what Anthony is getting at.

***By the way, I can find anything in the PSI manual that mentions the above.

Secunia does not asset track Adobe Flash ActiveX in IE10 or 11 on the Win8 , 8.1 or 8.1.1 OS's and that is because Windows update does the updating (It does track on ALL the other Windows OS's "normally") Neither does it track the Google Pepper Flash on ANY OS as Google do the updating .

It does track the Flash plug-in for Gecko based browsers on ALL Windows OS's .